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Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+

By : Vladimir Yakovlev
Book Image

Check Point Firewall Administration R81.10+

By: Vladimir Yakovlev

Overview of this book

Check Point firewalls are the premiere firewalls, access control, and threat prevention appliances for physical and virtual infrastructures. With Check Point’s superior security, administrators can help maintain confidentiality, integrity, and the availability of their resources protected by firewalls and threat prevention devices. This hands-on guide covers everything you need to be fluent in using Check Point firewalls for your operations. This book familiarizes you with Check Point firewalls and their most common implementation scenarios, showing you how to deploy them from scratch. You will begin by following the deployment and configuration of Check Point products and advance to their administration for an organization. Once you’ve learned how to plan, prepare, and implement Check Point infrastructure components and grasped the fundamental principles of their operation, you’ll be guided through the creation and modification of access control policies of increasing complexity, as well as the inclusion of additional features. To run your routine operations infallibly, you’ll also learn how to monitor security logs and dashboards. Generating reports detailing current or historical traffic patterns and security incidents is also covered. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge necessary to implement and comfortably operate Check Point firewalls.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Check Point, Network Topology, and Firewalls in Your Infrastructure and Lab
6
Part 2: Introduction to Gaia, Check Point Management Interfaces, Objects, and NAT
13
Part 3: Introduction to Practical Administration for Achieving Common Objectives

Saving and loading the configuration

I have to remind you that while you are looking at the output of the show configuration and are seeing a list of commands, this is really the output of the database query. While individual commands could easily be copy-pasted, modified, and executed, do not attempt to do this using the entirety of a Gaia configuration.

There is a number of reasons that necessitate saving and loading a Gaia configuration, such as migration to new appliances, replacement of the existing hardware due to component failure (very rare, but it does occasionally happen), as well as offline preparation of a configuration for deployment on new appliances. This last one is common when working with clusters.

In our lab, the Gaia configuration is pretty simple, but in production environments, you may easily encounter a configuration in excess of 1,000 lines describing complex dynamic routing, hundreds of interfaces, and a variety of other settings.

Saving the configuration...